Area women attended Colonial Weeks in Washington. D.C. recently. Jean Pollard of Stuttgart and Marjo Dill of Pine Bluff began with registration for Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century, John Eliot Chapter at the Mayflower Hotel as delegates. The CDXVIIC National Society has a membership of 11,000. On Thursday afternoon, April 11, Dill was a room hostess at the Daughters of American Colonists because the CDXVIIC house was closed due to construction of streets surrounding the CDXVIIC house.

Pollard attended the meeting of the Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 at the Mayflower where she was reinstalled for another two-year term as Chaplain General by Governor General Jeannine Kallol. Nell White of Hot Springs Village was also installed as Governor General for a two-year term. The program was given by Langley Shook, president of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, "Preserving the traditions of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum." The Museum opened in two rooms in 1965. It is now a tourist attraction. The collection has 100 vessels dating pre Civil War to 1950s. Sixty thousand visitors annually. It has a shipwright apprentice program. "We are not just about boats, we are also about people, always about history," Shook concluded.

President General Kallol presented each member on her board with a certificate of appreciation for their support and contribution to the Guild.

Thursday evening, Dill and Pollard attended the Formal Opening Night of CDXVIIC in the Mayflower Hotel. Mary Miller of Batesville, incoming Arkansas State President CDXVIIC, participated in the processional. President General Jan Lockard presided. Address was by historian Steven Edenbo portraying President Thomas Jefferson both in costume and in speech.

Friday morning, April 12, Dill and Pollard attend the New England Women National Society's breakfast in the Senate room of the Mayflower Hotel. CDXVIIC's National Conference convened immediately after the breakfast with Miller and Pollard attending. Dill was attending the National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars as Arkansas State Presdient. Pollard and Dill attended the CDXVIIC awards luncheon with Arkansas receiving four awards and a certificate for outgoing State President Genevieve Paulson. Dill also attended a reception for the Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens.

Friday evening, April 12, Dill and Pollard, members of both societies, attended the combined reception/dinner of National Society Colonial Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 and National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 at the Army Navy Club. They were joined by Maj. J. Tyler Wilson, CRNA, PHD, son of Nell White. He is assistant professor Nurse Anesthesia Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Graduate School of Nursing.

An anesthetist at Walter Reed Hospital, Bethesda, Md. Mrs. White serves as treasurer of the Bench and Bar Society. Speaker at this meeting was Stephen McLeod, assistant to CEO at Mt. Vernon. He presented a PowerPoint on his book "Dining with the Washingtons." During the meeting Jill Asken was recognized as winning the scholarship and spoke of her schooling at William and Mary College.

Page 2 of 2 - Saturday morning, April 13, CDXVIIC held its Hour of Remembrance. Included in those remembered were the following from Arkansas: Roberta Jackson Dix, Colonel John Washington Chapter and Kathleen Johnson, Mary Place Chapter. A total of 236 deceased. The final business meeting followed the Hour of Remembrance with a credential report showing a total of 266 attending the CDXVIIC national conference. Pollard served on the Teller Committee and Fran Davis was elected as President General and was installed with her board that afternoon after the luncheon, which Pollard attended.

Saturday evening Pollard attended the reception/dinner of National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons at the University Club. Pollard led the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America as a National Herald. During the meeting she was named a vice president. Chancellor Lewis Nelson presided. The address was "More Than Culture: The Magna Charta and the Evolution of the Western Hemisphere," by Ambassador G. Phillip Hughes.

Sunday morning at the DoubleTree Hotel, Dill and Pollard attended the National Society Dames of the Court of Honor Breakfast. Marc Leepson, author of seven books, presented a talk about Francis Scott Key's writing of “The Star Spangled Banner” — a 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Leepson said that Key was called Frank. Ninety attended this breakfast representing 24 states.

That afternoon Dill's cousin, Susan Smith, drove Dill and Pollard to Arlington National Cemetery where they visited the gravesite of a former Stuttgart resident, Confederacy Memorial and other memorials. That evening, Dill attended the Hereditary Society of Teachers reception/meeting.

Monday morning, April 15, Dill and Pollard attended the business meeting and luncheon of the National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims; Pollard as Historian General and Dill as Arkansas Branch Governor. New officers were elected and installed by outgoing Governor General Robert Odum. Carole Belcher was installed as 2013-15 governor general. During the Memorial Service four members of Arkansas Branch were remembered: Carolyn Berry, Louise Doak, Bobby Downs and Kathleen Pierce Johnson. Forty-two members were in attendance.